crisis

The following items are tagged crisis.

“Can Ethnic Divisions be Healed for the Good of all Kenyans?”

Posted by & filed under Daily, Events, The Kelman Seminar.

“Can Ethnic Divisions be Healed for the
Good of all Kenyans?”

with

Robert Rotberg
and
Gwen Thompkins

Date: October 19, 2010

Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).

Speaker Bios

Robert Rotberg is Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution, Belfer Center for Science and

“International Finance and How It Affects the Negotiation of Global Conflicts”

Posted by & filed under Daily, Events, The Kelman Seminar.

“International Finance and How It Affects the Negotiation of Global Conflicts”
with

Loch Adamson
and
Richard Parker

Date: September 21, 2010

Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-262, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).

Speaker Bios

Loch Adamson is the London bureau chief of Institutional Investor, a New York-based financial

When the going gets tough…

Posted by & filed under Daily, Negotiation Skills.

Adapted from “Taming Hard Bargainers,” by Robert C. Bordone (professor, Harvard Law School), first published in the Negotiation newsletter.

Suppose you’re about to face off with an “old school” negotiator whose reputation for hard bargaining precedes him. You know you’re supposed to adopt a collaborative approach for the best results, but what about when the other

Announcing the 2010 PON Summer Fellows

Posted by & filed under Daily, PON Summer Fellowships.

About the PON Summer Fellowship Program:

PON offers fellowship grants to students at Harvard University, MIT, Tufts University and other Boston-area schools who are doing internships or undertaking summer research projects in negotiation and dispute resolution in partnership with public, non-profit or academic organizations. The Summer Fellowship Program’s emphasis is on advancing the links between

“The Future of Cuba, Cuban-Americans, and the U.S. Government: Reconciliation or War Crime Tribunals and Property Restitution?”

Posted by & filed under Conflict Resolution, Daily.

“The Future of Cuba, Cuban-Americans,
and the U.S. Government:
Reconciliation or War Crime Tribunals and Property Restitution?”

with

Jorge I. Dominguez
and
Anita Snow

Date: May 4, 2010

Time: 4-6 PM
Where: CGIS Building, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs,
1737 Cambridge Street, Room N-354*, Cambridge MA
Contact Chair: Donna Hicks (dhicks@wcfia.harvard.edu).
*Please note this event is not in the usual room.

Speaker Bios

Jorge I. Domínguez is

Hannah Riley Bowles

Posted by & filed under Affiliated Faculty, PON Affiliated Faculty.

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Hannah Riley Bowles is an Associate Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School. She conducts research on gender in negotiation and the attainment of leadership positions. She has conducted case research on leadership in crisis and the management of complex multi-party conflicts.

William Ury

Posted by & filed under Affiliated Faculty, PON Affiliated Faculty.

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William L. Ury co-founded Harvard’s Program on Negotiation and is currently a Senior Fellow of the Harvard Negotiation Project. He is the author of The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No & Still Get to Yes (2007) and co-author (with Roger Fisher) of Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, an eight-million-copy bestseller translated into over thirty languages.

Douglas Stone

Posted by & filed under Affiliated Faculty, PON Affiliated Faculty.

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Doug Stone is a Managing Partner at Triad Consulting Group and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches negotiation. Through Triad, he consults to a wide range of organizations, including Fidelity, Honda, HP, IBM, Merck, Microsoft, Shell, the Nature Conservancy, and the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. He has also taught and mediated around the world.

To Avoid Disaster, Plan Ahead

Posted by & filed under Business Negotiations.

In the midst of the recent financial crisis, accusations of greed on Wall Street have sounded across the globe. Greed may be a significant factor in the collapse of credit markets, but it’s not the only one. Overlooked in cries to punish the “bad apples” is the role of a mistake that virtually all negotiators make: ignoring how our short-term decisions will affect us and others in the future.

Dealing with an angry public

Posted by & filed under Conflict Management, Daily.

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When negotiators get along well, creative problem solving is easy. When they become upset, however, they seem to forget everything they know about finding joint gain, to the point of giving up tangible wins simply to inflict losses on the other party. This is especially true in high-profile negotiations that turn nasty. Confronted with negative